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Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me. — Judi Dench

But I'm expected. Palfrey. I - " "Oh, yes, sir! Better not try to get the jeep along the street, though Mind — John Creasey

From what he could see she had the legs of a much younger woman. Certainly not what he would have expected in the way of Unitarian legs. — Barbara Kingsolver

He was not the king they expected. — N. T. Wright

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected. — Christina Milian

They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves. — John Adams

Time evaporate, money is always needed, comforts found where they were not expected and excitement dug up in barren ground. — Susan Sontag

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old. — Elizabeth Janeway

holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian. Paul's — Jerry Bridges

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he's what you need. — Timothy Keller

There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong. — Larry McMurtry

What may not be expected in a country of eternal light — Mary Shelley

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art. — Tom Shadyac

People tend to say, 'You're not as fat or as ugly as I expected.' I never know how to reply. It's a bit of a slap, but they don't mean it, I'm sure. — Siobhan Finneran

I wanted someone to open doors and lend a helping hand, not because it was expected but because they wanted to. Because they liked me that much. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

Is it not enough that I am devoured, without my being expected to bless the power that devours me? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises. — Mae West

Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected. — Channing Tatum

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it. — Murray Kempton

So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said.
'Except it feels good now, at this moment. — Kent Haruf

A flower is no less beautiful because it does not bloom in the expected form. Because it lasts an hour, not days. — Alexandra Bracken

Unlike Android or mobile applications, the expected upswing in ERP adoption is measured in years and not months. — Vinnie Mirchandani

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected. — Mariska Hargitay

I expected something pathological, but I did not expect the depth, the violence, and the almost intolerable beauty of the disease. — Kurt Vonnegut

Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. — George Eliot

Good is not good, where better is expected — Thomas Fuller

That's what love is ... It's scary not knowing what's expected ... but I know it'll be the best frightening love we've ever had. — E.L. Montes

It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do. — Nadia Comaneci

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take. — Mohsin Hamid

If everything turned out just the way everybody expected, life would be exceedingly dull, and learning in any useful sense simply would not occur. — Harrison Owen

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things. — Isaac Watts

Even in the worst of times, the Tamils had not expected the Sri Lankan army to shell the sick and dying. — Rohini Mohan

Psychologists were such voyeurs. They got off on true-life confessions, and then expected us to trust them. Not likely. Grabbing — Skye Warren

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys. — Stanislas Wawrinka

It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better. — Gary Payton

The confused murmur of his nights began to rise, expected but not familiar — Paul Valery

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it. — Kim Gordon

A gift much expected is paid, not given. — George Herbert

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive. — Oscar Wilde

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought. — Margaret Chase Smith

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day. — Frank B. Kellogg

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself. — Howard Hodgkin

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you. — Robert Henri

I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality. — Cris Mazza

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. — Abraham Lincoln

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw. — Henry Ward Beecher

I'd seen enough grief as a priest to know that people never really moved on, at least not in the linear, segmented way our culture expected people to. — Sierra Simone

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more. — Hill Harper

Sometimes, not handing out the punishment when it is most expected is the best way to bring lasting repentance. — Subroto Bagchi

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. — Mary MacLane

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it. — Denis Diderot

So that went well. Not that I should have expected better. Inebriated middle-of-the-night calls are sort of destined to fail. — Jessica Park

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it. — Donald Barthelme

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened. — Audrey Hepburn

She was very young ... she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing. — George Orwell

Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way. — Donna Tartt

'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do. — Jodie Foster

She's not what I expected. She's not what I wanted, but fuck me if she's not what I need. — Aurora Rose Reynolds

is not to be expected that there should be agreement about the definition of any thing, until there is agreement about the thing itself. — John Stuart Mill

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be. — Alain De Botton

Suicide may be a choice, but not as much as it is expected when everything else fails. — Mark Brightlife

could not be expected to part with them. — Philipp Meyer

Anyone that coaches their son, you expect more out of your boy. I'm not talking about stats, but I expected him to be the hardest worker out there. — Paul Coffey

You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know. — Tom Brokaw

It seems insane to be expected to lie in a dark room alone and not feel completely crazy and bipolar and confused and more awake. — Jordan Castro

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them — Joan Didion

If someone does not expect or is not expected to achieve, then they never will. — Martin Pistorius

Hello! Hunk getting naked time. You expected me not to look? — Dana Marie Bell

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor. — Billy Bob Thornton

Greens are not expected to be anything but nice. — David Lange

Life is not what you expected it to be. — Lauren Bacall

Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. — C. JoyBell C.

Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children. — Leo Tolstoy

I'm so pissed at her. For ... for, I don't know. Not being the Margo I had expected her to be. — John Green

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. — Loretta Young

My breath caught in my throat.
Buttered biscuits and honey.
You're not what I expected. — Myra McEntire

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You — Ruskin Bond

I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died. — Melissa Bank

It is hard, is it not," he said, "to have one's life develop quite differently from what one expected and to feel not fully in command of it? — Mary Balogh

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could. — Ken Livingstone

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. — Ayn Rand

He did not put his feelings down to simple xenophobia. Basically, he hadn't expected the alien to be so completely alien. — Alan Dean Foster

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought. — Margaret Chase Smith

We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts. — Stephen King

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be. — Brigitte Bardot

It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun. — Mike McCarthy

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me. — Robbie Robertson

marksmanship on the rifle range was not as good as his drill instructors expected. Some called his work "sloppy." When — Jim Bishop

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be. — John Cheever

Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in. — Tara Moss

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected. — Alice Hoffman

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude. — Miguel

Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path. — Timothy Keller

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person. — Ali Smith

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected. — Bruce Lee

Form the habit of going the extra mile, giving service that is not expected, for this attracts friends, clients, and supporters in many ways — Napoleon Hill

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? — Louis De Bernieres

You're not what I expected in a pirate."
He laughed, curtly. "You're not what I expected in a princess. — Brynn Kelly